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Blue Origin is an American, privately-funded aerospace developer and manufacturer interested in lowering spaceflight costs to explore the solar system. The company was founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos in Kent, Washington, United States.
The company has begun developing and designing aerospace capabilities designed to provide launch, landing, stop, and restart capabilities. Blue Origin has built and tested multiple generations of suborbital and orbital spaceflight. The vision of Blue Origin is to have millions of people living and working in space and to implement the use of reusable launch vehicles to make the normal.
The New Shepard is a reusable suborbital rocket system, named after the first American astronaut to space, Alan Shepard. The system is designed to take astronauts and research payloads beyond the boundary of space within eleven minutes. The reusable rocket has a capsule that can hold six people. The system launches up to the Karman Line, where the capsule holding passengers separates into free flight as the engine booster descends for landing. Parachutes are deployed when the capsule is landing in the West Texas desert.
The New Glenn is a reusable orbital launch vehicle designed to carry people and payloads into Earth orbit and beyond. The vehicle is named after astronaut John Glenn. It is designed to perform a minimum of 25 space flights and be utilized for civil, commercial, and national security purposes. The vehicle is designed to launch in 95% of weather conditions and will launch from Cape Canaveral. Blue Origin expects to be operational with the New Glenn by 2021.
Blue Moon is a lunar lander designed to deliver various small, medium, and large payloads to the lunar surface to enable a sustainable human presence on the moon. The vehicle borrows technology from the New Shepard and can provide precision guidance, vertical landing, and operating with landing gear systems. The lander can land multiple metric tons of payload on the moon and provide kilowatts of power to payloads. Blue Origin looks to return Americans to the moon in 2024.
